What ive Done Today
Today ive added sound effects and cut down more of my footage. unfortunatly as ive tried to cut shot were my actress is looked at the camera ive lots the the flow of the film and now it looks really badly edited.
i started on my demon face and relized a demon face was not going ot work with my footage so i took a page out of the short art student film 'Destroy' were its flashs images in 2 farames you don't see alot of it but your mind takes it all in. so ive taken frezzeframes of the original footage and edited it in photoshop. ive also taken some more images and put them in between each shot so make it flow smother but still jitter and jumpy.
ive now uploaded the rough cut onto youtube.
there is still work needing to be done but some off the shot i like.
We also showed the vedio to the class and they gave me feed back
the majority like but say i should make it flow better my actress keeps lookng at the camera. As we had no sound in the playing of the film they all said they would have to be sound to make it effective and give more of the mood. But they all liked my Demon face.
Still to do
i have to sort out the editing
add credits
add more sound
and put the film through a filter to make it look more like a dream world.
Thursday, 26 February 2009
Editing Day 1
What ive done Today
i have uploaded my film and i have sived through the footage and got my good footage moved my bad footage out of the way. i have put all my clips in order and aranged in the correct order i also have cut everything down so each shot flows alot more easyer. i have done my split shot of the two of the same person in the shot by croping one of the clips and over lapping it ontop of the other then lined up with the suroundings.
Still Need to do
i still need to put in sound effects and music
still need to make my Demon Face
Cut more of the footage so it doesn't drag out so long
i have uploaded my film and i have sived through the footage and got my good footage moved my bad footage out of the way. i have put all my clips in order and aranged in the correct order i also have cut everything down so each shot flows alot more easyer. i have done my split shot of the two of the same person in the shot by croping one of the clips and over lapping it ontop of the other then lined up with the suroundings.
Still Need to do
i still need to put in sound effects and music
still need to make my Demon Face
Cut more of the footage so it doesn't drag out so long
Filming My Opening Sequence
I filmed my opening sequce in priory park woods. i filmed during miday
filming was very quick we only spent an hour on site to film and only edded with 6minutes of footage majority were out takes.
I feel disapointed about this but know to spend more time and film alot more so i ahve more to work with during editing.
I filmed Shot by shot in order. everything went well, but after watching back i noticed my actress kept looking at the camera and by then it was to late to do anything. With the good footage i ahve i can work well with it and will consentrate everything into editing to make the opening sequence a sucsses.
filming was very quick we only spent an hour on site to film and only edded with 6minutes of footage majority were out takes.
I feel disapointed about this but know to spend more time and film alot more so i ahve more to work with during editing.
I filmed Shot by shot in order. everything went well, but after watching back i noticed my actress kept looking at the camera and by then it was to late to do anything. With the good footage i ahve i can work well with it and will consentrate everything into editing to make the opening sequence a sucsses.
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Top 3 Thing you do before and during filming
Tip 1- Planning
Plan everything to the very last. Make sure you have all your actors, dates and times are set and met. So there are no complitions. Also have a back up plan for your back up plan you never now what can go wrong.
Tip 2- Location
Location is key to sell any film if its not in the right location the film will fall apart. So make sure your location is esacly what you want and you can film there. Also go to the location and take some photos or test shots to see if your location works.
Tip 3- Amount of Footage to work with
Footage is key if there no footage you have forgot something. Make sure everything is working and set up correctly. Also when filming take great care into each shot so it can be the best it can be. Fianlly Don't be Afraid to do more takes of the same shot even if the take before was corrent there always room for improvment and you ahve more footage to play with during editing.
Plan everything to the very last. Make sure you have all your actors, dates and times are set and met. So there are no complitions. Also have a back up plan for your back up plan you never now what can go wrong.
Tip 2- Location
Location is key to sell any film if its not in the right location the film will fall apart. So make sure your location is esacly what you want and you can film there. Also go to the location and take some photos or test shots to see if your location works.
Tip 3- Amount of Footage to work with
Footage is key if there no footage you have forgot something. Make sure everything is working and set up correctly. Also when filming take great care into each shot so it can be the best it can be. Fianlly Don't be Afraid to do more takes of the same shot even if the take before was corrent there always room for improvment and you ahve more footage to play with during editing.
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Mood bored animatic
This is my mood bored it is a compilation of images and sound effects. I have used a lot of images from medieval or ancient civilizations.
Continuity Task 2
Continuity Task in DV
This is the film we shot using normal DV tapes. From the looks of it the camera quality is much better then our other camera. The Only Problem was that the Volume was very hard to hear. We seem to not set the mic settings right.
Continuity Task in HD
Continuity Task in HD
The quality is even better than the DV tapes. We Had two problems with the HD tapes one we had to set the camera to HD recording and the audio was still very quiet.
Sunday, 8 February 2009
Post Production
In my post production i will have to try out all speacail effects and camera effect i am going to be using in my opening sequecne.
1st My Demon Face: i know it is easily done on After Effects. I will test out some diffrent demon faces that i could do and see how good they come out.
2nd Split Screen( Two of the Same person): I plan to take to shot of the same person in there diffrent spots then cut teh shot in the middle and ajust the two shot into line so there apears to be two of the same people interacting.
1st My Demon Face: i know it is easily done on After Effects. I will test out some diffrent demon faces that i could do and see how good they come out.
2nd Split Screen( Two of the Same person): I plan to take to shot of the same person in there diffrent spots then cut teh shot in the middle and ajust the two shot into line so there apears to be two of the same people interacting.
Blog Feedback
Kirk Kemp's Feedback:
Overall your blog is very well organised and structured well, there are only a few things i have noticed that could posibly be changed / added. One being the speilling mistakes, and the overall paragraph / sentence structure side of your seperate blog posts , but this is only a very minor thing and is not a big thing at all, as it will only take a few alterations / changes in order to put it right. The second thing being that your blog could possibly do with more visuals i.e. pictures, gif images, animations and videos, in order to make it more eye catching, becuase the examiners will want more of a visually enhanced blog, rather than a boring text by text blog which is text after text after text etc. The final thing that could maybe changed is the titles for each blog post, in order to make it clear what has been done in that blog post.
What i will do:
From what Kirk has told me is that i will put a few more images in and maybe some more vedios for reserch. Also to give my blog a quick spell cheak and maybe retittle some of my blog post to make it clear what is in the post.
Overall your blog is very well organised and structured well, there are only a few things i have noticed that could posibly be changed / added. One being the speilling mistakes, and the overall paragraph / sentence structure side of your seperate blog posts , but this is only a very minor thing and is not a big thing at all, as it will only take a few alterations / changes in order to put it right. The second thing being that your blog could possibly do with more visuals i.e. pictures, gif images, animations and videos, in order to make it more eye catching, becuase the examiners will want more of a visually enhanced blog, rather than a boring text by text blog which is text after text after text etc. The final thing that could maybe changed is the titles for each blog post, in order to make it clear what has been done in that blog post.
What i will do:
From what Kirk has told me is that i will put a few more images in and maybe some more vedios for reserch. Also to give my blog a quick spell cheak and maybe retittle some of my blog post to make it clear what is in the post.
Exorcizm Of Emily Rose
I like the way this opening squence is made. it a very slow sequence but the atmosphere and that sound effects and music makes you feel like something is wrong but you do not see much to comfirm it till mid way in the sequnce with the preist being taken by the police.
This Also help give idea of technice on sound and atmospher building for my sequcene using sound and music are key ellements to make a scary movie scary.
Friday, 6 February 2009
What Could Go Very Wrong
Major Issuse
1. One of my problems are finding a good enough actor taht will look convincing in the film. I will start asking around college and my local town for actors. My back-up use my Close Relations
2.After getting actors that live in cambridge arranging them to get to the film location on time. if this failules i will get soemone local to act for me.
3.Time is a Major Issue as i am most likely to film during febuary half term break and with the lack of good quality Camera we all have small about of time with each camera. so i will have to make a tight skeduale so everything can be done without being rushed.
1. One of my problems are finding a good enough actor taht will look convincing in the film. I will start asking around college and my local town for actors. My back-up use my Close Relations
2.After getting actors that live in cambridge arranging them to get to the film location on time. if this failules i will get soemone local to act for me.
3.Time is a Major Issue as i am most likely to film during febuary half term break and with the lack of good quality Camera we all have small about of time with each camera. so i will have to make a tight skeduale so everything can be done without being rushed.
What Could go Wrong
Nuiscances
Actors Peromances are not convincing.
Not go use to the New Cameras.
The weather is so Bad we can not shoot.
Minor Concerns
Can't do the effects of after effect to get a convincing Demon Face
Been Able to Get Actors and Crew to the Film location
Can get all our Costumes Together in time
Extra Effect look good with the film.
Actors Peromances are not convincing.
Not go use to the New Cameras.
The weather is so Bad we can not shoot.
Minor Concerns
Can't do the effects of after effect to get a convincing Demon Face
Been Able to Get Actors and Crew to the Film location
Can get all our Costumes Together in time
Extra Effect look good with the film.
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Costumes
My Costumes are very plan all we need is a plain shit and pajama bottoms and some shoes, socks or boots. depending on the weather. we are going to need 2 of the same t-shirts as we are doing an over shoulder shot of the same person.
Locations
In my Opening Sequence I only have 2 main location
Location 1: A Large Forest ( I have found the place i am going to shoot but i hope the weather is kind and it won't be hard to wonder around the woods with out slipping up or damaging the equipment.) This location is were majority of the opening sequence will be shot
Location 2: This is in an Bedroom prosily a clean and plain bedroom. if no were is found we shall use my bedroom.) This Location is were the last shot is taken.
Location 1: A Large Forest ( I have found the place i am going to shoot but i hope the weather is kind and it won't be hard to wonder around the woods with out slipping up or damaging the equipment.) This location is were majority of the opening sequence will be shot
Location 2: This is in an Bedroom prosily a clean and plain bedroom. if no were is found we shall use my bedroom.) This Location is were the last shot is taken.
My Animatic
This is my Animatic. I took photos of my story bored and then produced my rough copy of my film opening sequence.
I like some of the motions i have used and the text. i think the project will go to plan my story bored is nothing to complected.
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